Re: Newton, James Cook and the Archi.

In article <1191664773.226181.222870@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
   David.Watts.RiscPC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <David.Watts.RiscPC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> On 6 Oct, 06:39, "Alex' A. Interrants" <ausserstor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Well, so I'm still playing "Pirates" on the good old Commodore 64. I
> > will never understand why people are advised to buy a new computer for
> > gaming. Most of the best titles are *very* old. Or very undemanding of
> > hardware.
> >
> > For me, good games are like good books. In old times it was easier to
> > write games for computers by everybody because the computers was much
> > simpler, wasn't it? And the publish market was also more open to
> > spend informations about computers "and the run".

> it's just as simple or even easier to create your own games these days
> with there being lots of easy to learn languages and widely available
> toolkits.

Possibly not. Ask for help and some fool will butt in and castigate you
for
asking about BASIC instead of using C++. It *could* be as simple (or
easier)
with good (and free) editors and development such as AppBasic - but you
also
need to be surrounded by op****tunities to gee you along (like magazine
listings). Now if someone would like to write a series of articles on how
to
write your own (what sort of game do you want?) then that could run
alongside
our series on Assembler programming ...

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